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TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
1.2 Identification of the problem
1.3 Limitation of the problem
1.4 Research question
1.5 Purpose of the research
1.6 Method of the research
1.6.1 Colecting the data
1.6.2 Analysis the data
1.6.3 Presenting the result of analysis
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Previous Studies
2.2 Definition of key terms
2.3 Theoretical Framework
2.3.1 Pragmatics
2.3.2 Conversation analysis
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2.3.3 Contexts
2.3.3 Turn-taking
2.4 Conceptual Framework
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
The speaking is one of the ways a person communicates and socializes with other people, so it is
necessary for everyone to be able to speak correctly and precisely, in linguistics, especially
English in pragmatics lessons. According to Yule (1996:3), pragmatis is the study of meaning
When we speaking and conversation, it may have intended meaning and it can be analyzed by
Conversation is forms of spoken interaction and commonication that is use by two or more
people. According to Yule (1996:71), the structure of the talk or basic pattern of talk is ‘I
speak – you – I speak – you speak’ , Will derive the fundamental of interaction. In
conversation, it Will be seen how people organize their conversation to interact each other.
Therefore, it is important to understand about conversation analysis, to know how people take
In conversation there are number of rules in which we ca signal we have to take turn or to
end. It may use falling intonation or pausing. Sometimes when we talk each other in
the presence of misunderstanding, we must know about the rules in communication to take
the conversation run cleary and go smootly. We can analyzed with turn-taking the rules about
turn of speak.
Turn-taking is turn to speak as the right to speak in conversation. Levinson (1983: 296)
states “that conversation is characterized by turn-taking: one participan, A, talk, stop, another,
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B, starts, talk, stop; and so we obtain an A-B-A-B-A-B distribution of talk across two
participants” It is like the speaker or participant take their turn to speak from the previously
speaker. Yule (1996: 72) states theory about turn-taking strategies such as pauses, overlap
patient, servicing customer at business, interviewing in talk show, debates, conversation, etc.
in conversation and turn taking strategies are also closely related to context, the context in
conversation can influence the meaning or intent of what someone says, for example whose
cell phone is this, this word can mean asking and can mean accusing someone depending on
the context.
In debates and everyday conversations, the conditions are certainly different, in debates
a person aims to show that he is right, whereas in everyday conversations it is only for
communicating.
In this study, we will discuss about “ THE FULL FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
PBS NEWSHOUR. Which debate is very important for the United States of America because
of the determination of who will be the president who will lead them, Donald Trump is a
person with a lot of controversy who has a unique background, and is no less interesting than
Hillary Clintion is a woman and educated, of course not as important as a prestigious host
with Holt, this is what made me interested in discussing it in this thesis, especially about the
turn-taking between the host and the candidate, and this topic is trending in the United
States .
Based on the background of the study above, the prolems that can be identified are:
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1. There are turn-taking strategy between host and guest in PBS NEWSHOUR LIVE
NEWSHOUR
2. There are some maxims of the cooperative principle in PBS NEWSHOUR LIVE
NEWSHOUR
Based on the Identification of the problem above the researcher limit the discussion on
Based on the Limitation of the problem above the research question are:
1. What are the turn-taking strategy between host and guest in PBS NEWSHOUR LIVE
NEWSHOUR?
To analyze the turn-taking strategy between host and guest in PBS NEWSHOUR LIVE
qualitative research is type of research which tries to describe an object. Qualitative research
and description of thing or object. There are several steps that will be done in this research
surch as collecting the data, analyzing the data and presenting the result of analysis.
The researcher uses observasional method ( metode simak) to collect the data.
penyimakan: dilakukan dengan menyimak, yaitu menyimak pengguna bahasa”. THE data
where collected by observing the use of language surch as observe people in talking
bebas lihat cakap) with note-taking technic (teknik catat). Participant observasional method
(simak bebas libat cakap) is “sipeneliti tidak terlibat dalam dialog, konversasi, atau imbal
bicara; so, tidak ikut serta dalam proses pembicaraan orang – orang yang saling berbicara”.
The researcher get the data with download the video so, the data can be noted by using
implementation of note-taking technic. Note-taking technic (teknik catat), makes a note about
1. finding and downloading the video PBS NEWSHOUS LIVE EVENT “ THE FULL
To analyze the data, the researcher uses correlation method (metode padam) with diving-
method to correlated every element in language, the tool determiner is outside the language.
The technic used to support this method is diving-key-factors technic (pilah unsur
penentu/PUP). “teknik pilih unsur penentu atau PUP, adapun alatnya ialah daya pilah yang
bersifat mental yang miliki oleh penelitinya”. Researcher classifing the data by using the
theory of turn-taking strategies and the type of violation of the turn-taking rule. The
kadar keterangan. Adapun mitra bicara dapat dibedakan adanya reaksi yang bermacam-
macam dari keterdengaran olehnya”. The speaker is a determiner. Based on metode padan the
researcher analyzes the data with some steps: first, find the turn-taking strategies in PBS
NEWSHOUR. Second, classify the data into the theory turn-taking strategies, Third, analyze
and explain the data to answer the research question about turn-taking strategies.
The result of analysis can be presenter by two ways; formal method and informal method
by Sudaryanto (1993:145). In this research the researcher used informal method. According
to Sudaryanto informal method is “ perumusan dengan kata – kata biasa walaupun dengan
world/sentence. In this method, the researcher presents the result of data analysis by
description or explain by word. The data were presenter by turn-taking strategies according
Yule’s theory and identify the type violation of the turn-taking rules according Coates’s
theory.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Previous Studies
There are some previous researches related too this research. First, Tiono ,and Ansori
why Do Fools Fall in love”. They used descriptive qualitative method with the data in the
conversation among the four main African American character in the movie “ Why Do Fools
Fall in Love”. They finding and show the turn-taking irregularities in conversation by the
character in the movie use Wardaugh’s theory and theory and Cook’s theory. They found the
turn-taking irregularities African American characters and tended to overlap and interruption
in the conversation. They showed the reason of the overlap and interaction, the most
Study of Marhata in tradisional wedding ceremony of Batak Toba)”. They used descriptive
qualitative method of the research. They explain how the pattern of turn-taking of
conversation in tradisional wedding ceremony in three speech situations. They find and
showed the tree rules of turn alloccation are applicable in the conversation 0f Batak Toba
tradisional wedding ceremony and the first rules was more dominant in every speech
Third, Soepriatmadji and Primastuti ( 2015 ) entitle “ Turn – Taking organized by the
Host and Guests in “ Let Them Speak” talk show broadcast on first channel Russian TV in
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5th Desember 2014”. The aim construct the turn-taking system that is organized by host and
quest in that talk show with quantitative method. They found some results that indicate the
speaker tend to employ the turns in term of sentence. They found the speaker managed their
turn by selecting a different speaker, continuing one’s own turn and selecting the next
speaker. There are some respect to turn-taking strategi that founded, clean start,
uptake,link,alert,meta-comment and new start. They analyzed data by using some theories.
Fourth, Mutiara (2006) entitled "The Turn-taking Strategies and The Dominant Speaker
Between the Main Characters Based On Gender in "Pretty Woman". She used Stenstrom's
theory in turn-taking strategies and Tannen's theory. She wants to know the dominate
speakers between main character based on gender by using the turn-taking strategies. She
used qualitative and quantitative research method to support the final result of her research
and the source the main conversation between main characters. She finds out that taking the
turn is the highest strategy that occurs between the main characters in Pretty Woman. The
dominant speaker among the main characters is a female. The dominated speakers give
National Leaders Debate 2015". This research analyses the reason of the turn-taking during
the debate and the way participants are constructed by the debate through the turn-taking
strategies. To analyses that problem, they was uses some theories from Yule, Cook, Coates
and Wardhough. They analyses the conversation in debate with descriptive qualitative
method. They found all the participants use the turn-taking strategies consist of overlap and
interruption and each of strategy have their own reason. Such as signaling annoyance,
Based on previous researches above, the researcher discusses on the same context that
is turn-taking with the differences in this research is the source data, theory and method of
this research. The source data of the researcher is from watch the full first presidential debate
between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Theory that apply are strategy turn-taking by
Yule (1996) such as pauses, overlap and backchannels, Method of this research is Simak
1. Turn-taking is one participant talks and another participant stops,starts, talks, stops
2. Turn taking strategy is the strategy same one to speaking or to star speaking in
Conversation.
3. PBS NEWSHOUR is a name in Chanel yutube which broadcast the first presidential
debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, which will show how the debate between
2.3.1 Pragmatics
the study of meaning in relation to the context or contextual meaning in which a person is
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speaking or writing. Yule (2010:127) states "The study of what speakers mean, or "speaker
meaning," is Pragmatic has an invisible meaning or have an intended meaning and we can
assume or expect the meaning based on the context. We can use pragmatic to analyze the
debate with another person, of course here someone has a way of speaking and turn taking
Conversation are forms of spoken interaction and communication that is used by two or
more people. Conversation is the way for human to construction their relation, social contact,
communication each other. In conversation have how people organized their conversation to
interaction each other. To know how people, take and manage their turns in conversation that
is the systematic analysis of the talk produced in everyday situation of human interaction :
talk in interaction.
Sometimes in conversation there are two or more people who take their turn in
conversation. According to Yule (2010:146), the most part in conversation is participant wait
one speaker finishes their talk, usually by signaling. Speakers can mark their turns in a way:
2.3.3 Turn-taking
Turn-taking is the time one speaker speak and the other speaker keep silent until they
turn to speak follow the order to speak and change recurs. It can be a right to speak when we
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turn to speak. To follow the order to speak can be no gap and no overlap. According to Yule
(1996:72), Turn-taking is turn to speak as the right to speak and have control of the speak.
Turn-taking operates by a local management system is a set of convention for getting turns,
keeping them, or giving them away. This system can be changed in who has the turn in
There has been a lot of discussion about turn taking a conversation, here it focuses on
how to turn taking strategy someone's speech, especially in a debate, someone wants to
convince another person and of course there is a way. Here we will examine three ways to
When people speak in conversation, there are two or more people who get their turn in
According to Yule (1996: 72), most of the conversation involve two or more participants who
take they turn and only one party speaking at any time. Yule (1996) states theory about turn-
a. Pause
Pauses is silence between turns or the speaker have a silene in second (not longer silence).
The speaker when their turn keep silence in a few second or minute or the transitions with
silence for a moment. The symbol for transcription of pauses is a dash (-) to short pause and
longer pause become silences. When someone have a pauses it can be simple hesitations,
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thingking or Silences. The speaker fill each of pause with 'um' or 'uh' in inside of
conversation.
b. Overlap
The normal expectation in conversation is one speaker speak at a time. So, overlaps is both
speaker or more than one speaker talking at the same time in conversation. The symbol for
transcription is double dash (//) at the beginning of the overlapping talk. Typically of overlaps
when both speakers attempt to initiate talk. The overlaps may be due to unfamiliar
interruption and make a comment with a comment with louder voice (in transcription shown
by the capital letters). The solves of overlap is one speaker get or draws attention to be
C. Backchannels
Backchannels is one way of signaling we are listening the speaker speak. Ways of
indicating we are listening to the speakers in conversation is head nods, smiles, and other
facial expression and gestures, but vocal indications are called backchannel signal or simply
backchannels, such as 'uh-uh', 'yeah', 'mmm', 'oh', 'ah-ha". Backchannels can be indicating the
listener is following, received the message and not objecting to what the speaker says.
To make the conversation run clearly and go smoothly there are some rules for turn-
taking. Rule to governing turn constructing to minimize gab and overlap. Sacks, et al (1974)
'current speaker selects next technique, then the party so selected has the right and is obliged
to take next turn to speak; no other have such right or obligations, and transfer occurs at that
place. b) if the turn-so-far is so constructed as not to involve the use of a 'current speaker
select next' technique, then self-selection for next speakership may, but need not, be
instituted, first starter acquires rights to turn, and transfer occurs at that place. c) if the turn-
so-far is so constructed as not to involve the use of a 'current speaker selects next' technique,
then current speaker may, but need not continue, unless another self-select'. 2. If, at the initial
and, following the provision of 1c, current speaker has continued, then the rule-set a-c re-
applies at the next transition-relevance place, and recursively at each next transition-
From quotation above it can be summarized that rules la, lb, and Ic are to be used in
analysis of the operational rules applied in conversation and rules for Turn-taking, they are:
a. current speaker selects next speaker, when the part selected has the right and is obliged to
take next turn to speak, no other have to speak and transfer occurs at that place.
b. next speaker self-selects, when participant becomes next speaker, but nothing in the
c. current speaker continues This technique can be used when there is no other party take the
turn.
2.4 Contexs
context of situation and the broader context of culture in which it was used. Malinowski‟s
Phatic Communion concept is referring to primitive language of Trobriand islanders that
the meaning of words depends on their context. The words: „wood‟, „paddle‟, and
„place‟ for instance, had to be translated in the free interpretation in order to show their
real meaning. The meaning of the expression „ We arrive near the village of our
destination‟ literally: „ We paddle in place‟ is determined only by taking it in the context
of the whole utterance (Malinowski in Widdowson 2007:93). The idea shows that the
study of any language spoken by people under conditions different from our own and
possess a different culture, must be carried out in conjunction with the study of their
culture and environment (Widdowson: 2007: 94). The point of Malinowski‟s context of
situation lies in the fact that speech, consisting of technical terms referring directly to
environment, varies and changes based on behaviors that is closely related to social
relationship.
Closely related to Malinowski‟s context of situation is the one proposes by Firth. He
stated four kinds of context, as follows: (1) Participants or speaker and hearer with their
status and roles; (2) Acts or all actions they perform, verbally and non-verbally; (3)
Relevant characteristics including surrounding events having connection with the course
of present action; and (4) The impacts the speech acts give on interlocutors or the changes
of events as the consequence of speech acts (Firth 1968). In later years, this idea inspires
Hymes (1972) to conceptualize the context in speech situation, comprising of eight
components acronimally called SPEAKING, they are: (1) S stands for Setting and Scene;
(2) P stands for Participants; (3) E stands for Ends; (4) A stands for Act sequences; (5) K
stands for Key; (6) I stands for Instrumentalities, (7) N stands for Norms and (8) G stands
for Genres.
Context is realized in implicatures, references and presuppositions. In the case of
implicature, an utterance can implicate proposition not as part of related utterance. The
implied proposition is called implicature (Grice 1975). As implicature does not always
come from the utterance, the relationship between implicature and utterance is not a direct
consequence of each other. An utterance produced by a hearer in response to the
speaker‟s utterance is based on context. As there is no semantic relation between an
utterance and the one being implicated, an utterance may elicit a large number of
implicatures, depending on context or mutual background understanding between the
speaker and the hearer. The sentence: “Whose motorcycle is this?”, may elicit different
implicatures depending on various different contexts. In a situation where the motorcycle
gets in the way of other‟s, or being parked in front of other motorcycle, the implicature
might be “Move your motorcycle”. In a context where someone looks at it thoroughly as
if shows admiration, the implicature could be “Oh, no, that motorcycle hasn‟t been new
for a long time”. In a situation where a friend seems to expect a ride, the implicature
could be “Oke, you can go with me”.
Context and Pragmatics are two influentially interrelated concepts, that context is
required to realize language use in pragmatic perspective. Context, as a dynamic
environment enables interlocutors to interact in accordance to both persons‟ socio-
cultural background. In addition, context helps understand factors in producing, and
interpreting speech oriented in users. In other words, the relationship of context and
Pragmatics is analogically between species and genus.
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PRAGMATICS
TURN-TAKING
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BACKCHANNEL
PUSE OVERLAP
FINDING
The researcher uses pragmatic as a point of view of this research. The researcher uses
theory about turn taking, and focus to discussions about turn taking strategy in conversation, To
Analysis the data the researcher uses with turn taking strategy by Yule surch as puse, overlap and
backchannels. With that Is theory the researcher finds the result of Analysis of the data.
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